Re: OT: E-discovery Windows Tools

["Wiggins, Paul K." <Paul.Wiggins () TAMU EDU>]

Kevin,

 

I’ve used PowerGREP to great effect, searching for literal strings and using regular expressions to find particular 
information on network shares within many document types, including MS Office file-types, PDFs, text files, within zip 
files, etc .  I am unsure of the ability to search through PSTs though.

 

PowerGREP’s website at http://www.powergrep.com/ <http://www.powergrep.com/>  .  You can evaluate it for 15 days free 
of charge…  Otherwise, it costs $159.

 

I found its results easier to go through than some other packages.

 

On a side note, I also used RegexBuddy (also made by the same people who make PowerGREP) to aid in creating complicated 
and highly-customized regular expressions.  This does cost extra ($39.95), but just to make you aware.

 

 

Take care,

 

--Paul Wiggins, CISSP

--Senior Information Systems Security Auditor

--Texas A&M University System

--979.458.7129

--paul.wiggins () tamu edu <mailto:paul.wiggins () tamu edu>  

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin 
Kelly
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:00 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] OT: E-discovery Windows Tools

 

We need a tool to search through Windows file shares and local Windows PC hard drives for E-Discovery.  It needs to 
search all the basic Office documents along with PDFs and PSTs.  We are a SMB with no budget for this tool, so we need 
something that is free or inexpensive.  Something that works with Macintosh computers would be a plus. 

--
Kevin Kelly
Director, Network Technology
Whitman College